Bacon Network Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. — John Cusack

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious. — Bertrand Russell

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. — Michael Novak

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it. — Franz Wright

Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined. — Rachel Bach

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and no answers to objections. But on every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth depends on a balance to be struck between two sets of confliting reasons. Even in natural philosophy, there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true on: and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion. But when we turn to subjects infinitely more complicated, to morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it. — John Stuart Mill

Give up the lesser comforts for the greater happiness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. — Edward Tufte

A minute teaches me sixty different ways to think about you. — Faraaz Kazi

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. — Madame De Stael

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature! — Steven Magee

Though Fin couldn't see it, she felt the closeness of land around her. From beyond the grey veil she could sense the oppressive weight of two great continents crowding down to the sea, each to kneel and contemplate the nearness of an ancient earthen brother. — A.S. Peterson